William Charles Linnaeus Martin

William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1798 - 1864) was an English naturalist.

Martin was the curator of the museum of the Zoological Society of London from 1830 to 1838, when he lost his job due to financial cutbacks. He then became a freelance natural history writer, writing over a thousand articles and books including A Natural History of Quadrupeds and other Mammiferous Animals (1841), The History of the Dog (1845), The History of the Horse (1845) and Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature (1848-9).